jp_GearupTalkingPoints_FE1901

jp_GearupTalkingPoints_FE1901.md

Outline

• intro
• The inspiration

• Alter Ego

• What it is
• How it benefits humanity
• How it could be abused

• Progression of Tech

• How fast tech has grown
• Where it's heading

• Intersect of AI vs. HI

• What it is
• How it could be beneficial
• Moral issues/ abuse

• Closing thoughts

• What I think of all of it
• Directed Questions

Rough Transcript

Intro:

• Show of hands, how many of you have seen/heard of the show black mirror?

  • I love how they take a concept of tech and play devil's advocate with the idea

• Hyper-Reality is defined as having our complete natural world

  • Blended with our artificially constructed world

• Having Human intelligence in combination with AI tools and knowledge

Progression of Tech:

• So in the digital age we have had several technological breakthroughs that allow us to communicate with the digital world.

• We had the computer (as large as a small room), the internet, smartphones, wearables like Google Glass

• All of these devices and technologies help provide us with the tools to expand our knowledge of the world.

  • Giving us the ability to solve global scale problems within our world.
  • And maybe cause some problems here and there too...

Alter Ego:

• Recently I watched a TED talk on a new device that allows us to interact with AI in an intuitive and not so intrusive way.

• Inventor Arnav Kapur, knew that current implentations of Google Assistant, Alexa, and command line interface what not the most efficient nor accessible to everyone.

  • Whether you're in a quite space and can't have a conversation with Alexa
  • Or if you lack the physical ability to have these conversations with AI

• Kapur researched possible usecases to account for disabilities.

  • he found those who suffer from a stroke, als, and many other disabilities are working with really inefficient
  • ways of not only communicating with tech, but with the world around them

• He knew it was an issue that he was uniquely inclined to help solve

• He invented AlterEgo,

  • Which takes user input from the electrical signals that your body creates in response to the process of trying to commincate by mouth.

  • And only collects data when the signals are deliberately sent.

  • The input is then processed by an AI from a device and is converted to a feedback response.

  • The response is given to the user through bone conductivity

• AlterEgo is currently in use for running searches and commication assistance,

  • But could certainly change how we one day interact with our artificial world

Inevitable Progression of Tech

(if time permits)

• In Sam Harris' article he brings up the progression of tech

  • stating that:

• Tech will always improve

• Tech will always have value in the market

• Full automation would change the entire game

• Augmented Intelligence could be the normal

• and the many ways it could be problematic

• Those who control tech, would control the power

Hard Hitting Questions

• Time to bring up those hard hitting Gear-up questions

1: If Augmented Intelligence became the new norm.

• What priveleges and or rights would the end user be expected to give up?

2: If you were on a team developing the hottest new tech for our hyper-reality,

• What would it be
• What data would need to be collected to provide such features.

3: Would AlterEgo, if implemented into our society like say Facebook

• would there be any sort of side effects that affect the population's mental health